Former Nottingham Forest defender Chris Gunter has beaten Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale to the Welsh footballer of the year award, with Nottingham-born Ben Woodburn claiming the best young player prize.

Reading right-back Gunter, who played almost 150 games for Forest between 2009 and 2012 after joining them from Tottenham, picked up the player of the year trophy at the 2017 Football Association of Wales awards on Monday night.

Gunter has again been ever-present for Wales in 2017 to take his number of caps to 81 - the second most by an outfield player, with only Gary Speed ahead of him on 85.